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Botswana’s GDP Down 0.3% in Q1
Botswana Gazette
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July 21, 2025
Weaker diamond and mining output drove slight GDP contraction in early 2025 GAZETTE REPORTER Botswana’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decreased by 0.3 percent in the first quarter of 2025, a moderation compared to the 5.2 percent decline...
Southstone Minerals extends uranium acquisition agreement in Botswana
Mining Review
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July 23, 2025
Southstone Minerals Limited has extended its acquisition agreement with Afrium Energy Pte. Ltd., aimed at securing uranium assets in Botswana. The move signals Southstone’s continued commitment to expanding its footprint in the energy minerals...
Tribute to Sir Ketumile Quett Joni Masire, a founder of Botswana, on his centennial birthday
Mail & Guardian
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July 23, 2025
As Botswana's first vice-president and finance minister (1966-80), Ketumile Masire helped rescue Botswana from the category of the third most impoverished nation in the world. File photo Sir Ketumile Quett Joni Masire was born on 23 July 1925 in...
Dacic receives Botswana's Mokgware
Tanjug
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July 23, 2025
BELGRADE - Serbia and Botswana are connected by a friendship that has lasted for more than half a century, and it needs to be maintained by boosting cooperation, Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said after a meeting with Botswana's Minister...
AECI says noncore disposals proceeds nudging R3bn to R4bn target range
Engineering News
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Chemicals and mining explosives group AECI says it is on track to realise the R3-billion to R4-billion in proceeds from the sale of noncore businesses it forecast at the start of its far-reaching restructuring in late 2023, having signed deals...
Elementary occupations lead Botswana’s permit holders
Sunday Standard
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July 23, 2025
Statistics Botswana’s latest Work Permits Holders report for the second quarter of 2023 shows a marginal decline in foreign workers in the country. As of June 2023, 3,390 individuals held valid work permits, a one percent decrease from 4,810...
Economic reform must include industrial transformation
Australian Manufacturing
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July 23, 2025
By Roy Green For a while it looked like federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Economic Reform Roundtable would turn into a tax summit, such was the clamour to revisit missed opportunities. And we have an abundance of those in Australia. However, the...
Mining sector has massive potential
Dawn
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July 19, 2025
MINING surely plays a pivotal role in the economic development of countries endowed with natural resources. While Chile and Peru are long-standing leaders in copper and gold production, Pakistan is now beginning to explore and realise its...
Botswana government opposes sale of De Beers
AK&M
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AK&M 18 July 2025 17:47 The decision of the British Anglo American Plc to sell De Beers caused dissatisfaction with the government of Botswana, which owns 15% of the shares in the diamond producer. This is reported by foreign media. The Government...
British Investor Loses Shs3Bn in Uganda Gold Scam, City Law Firm M-Smith Cited
Red Pepper
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July 30, 2025
By Pepper Intelligence Unit Kampala, Uganda—In a harrowing tale of deception, loss, and legal ambiguity, a British national of New Zealand descent has come forward with claims that he was defrauded of over $800,000 (about Sh3 billion) in a series...
Govt shifts to local FMD vaccine production after spending R72m
SABC News
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July 22, 2025
South Africa has spent over R72 million on about 900 000 doses of vaccines for the Foot and Mouth disease outbreak since March this year. The government is now prioritising measures to manufacture locally produced FMD vaccines to respond quicker...
ARC plans new high-tech FMD vaccine production facility in SA
Farmer's Weekly
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July 22, 2025
The Agricultural Research Council (ARC) is making major strides in the development and local production of a vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), with plans under way for a state-of-the-art biocontainment facility and a mid-scale production...
South Africa's livestock industry under siege: Steenhuisen's call for urgent reforms
IOL
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In a hard-hitting address at the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) Indaba on Monday, Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen painted a stark picture of South Africa’s livestock industry under siege, not just from disease outbreaks but from a “broken...
Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1%
Carbon Brief
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July 21, 2025
China’s exports of clean-energy technologies such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are increasingly helping to cut emissions in other countries. Such exports in 2024 alone are already shaving 1% off global emissions outside of...
Closures in baking industry loom
Zimbabwe Independent
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Analysts said the price of bread had triggered a public outcry, with millers attributing the hike to erratic wheat supplies due to the Russia-Ukraine war, but bakers say the issue of unaddressed economic challenges remains the main factor...
The inconvenient truth: Beyond the glitter - Rebalancing mining, agriculture for Africa’s future
Graphic
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July 21, 2025
Mining extracts value from beneath the ground; agriculture nurtures value on the surface. Both are essential to Africa’s economic story, yet they are often in silent competition for land, water, and the livelihoods of millions. From Ghana to the...
Botswana Vaccine Institute expands role in Zim
NewsDay Zimbabwe
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The BVI chief, set to speak at the AGM, warned that foot-and-mouth disease is an imminent regional threat, with buffalo populations serving as natural carriers. THE Botswana Vaccine Institute (BVI), Zimbabwe’s sole supplier of livestock vaccines,...
Bomaid Deepens Corporate Ties Through Customer Engagement in Gaborone
Botswana Gazette
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July 21, 2025
Bomaid recently hosted a two-day customer engagement forum in Gaborone, reinforcing its commitment to transparency, operational efficiency, and improved client experience through digital upgrades and inclusive dialogue with corporate stakeholders...
Matumi, Redan deal gets nod
Zimbabwe Independent
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Redan Kerosene (Pvt) Ltd THE Competition and Tariff Commission (CTC) has granted unconditional approval for Matumi Energy (Pvt) Ltd to acquire a 51% stake in Redan Kerosene (Pvt) Ltd, a move set to reshape the country's energy landscape,...
Botswana eyes Chinese tech to tackle challenges
China Daily Global
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By MMAPULA MOLAPONG in Gaborone, Botswana | China Daily Global | Updated: 2025-07-16 09:26 Botswana's Minister of Water and Human Settlement Onneetse Ramogapi has expressed strong interest in deepening cooperation with China to address the...